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ACTAMitchell Baker speaks out against how the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (or ACTA, for short) was negotiated. With anti-ACTA protests sweeping across much of Europe, Mitchell describes how negotiating in secret is a bad way to develop Internet policy. Help protect the Internet and make your voice heard today.

Google Summer of Code 2012
With Google announcing that they’ll be running the Summer of Code again this year, Gervase Markham calls for ideas for eight-week-long projects which a student could take part in. Mozilla has participated in every SoC so far and Gerv doesn’t intend this year’s to be the first we don’t.

Webmaker Goals
“Building a generation of web makers” is one of Mozilla’s main goals for 2012. Mark Surman outlines plans to achieve that goal and more. Are you excited by our web maker vision and can you write, code, test or promote? You should get involved and help out.

December Dev Derby Winners
December’s Dev Derby was focused around IndexDB, a technology allowing web applications to store data for fast online and offline use. The submissions demonstrated just how powerful IndexDB can be. Be sure to try out the winning demos.

about:mozilla is a weekly round-up of news and contribution opportunities. A special thanks to Paul Booker for stepping in as our new about:mozilla author! Here’s what’s happening this week:

Tomoshibi of Firefox
This wonderful application built by Daisuke Akatsuka makes use of several new features in Firefox such as CSS Transitions & Audio Data API. It provides a virtual display in real time of Firefox 6 dowloads all over Japan. Cool stuff!

Let’s create Hackasaurus comics using HTML5 awesomeness

Jess Klein and Anna Debenham from the Hackasaurus team have been working on creating a hackable comic prototype that will make good use of the cool new features in HTML5. So far they have drafted a few frames of the narrative and tested the idea on a bunch of tween game designers. If you are interested in learning more about Hackasaurus, or are interested in our work around gaming, please visit the Hackasaurus website.

MPL Upgrade
Mozilla is on the verge of completing an 18-month process to revise the Mozilla Public License (MPL) says Gervase Markham of the Mozilla Foundation. We invite everyone in our community to review the license and raise any issues or questions that you may have.

Meet Betafarm
The new site that is currently under development is an effort to put supported projects from Mozilla Labs and the Mozilla Foundation under a single roof and to make it easy for anyone to find, follow and contribute to Mozilla projects. You are invited to kick the tires and let us know what you think: http://beta.drumbeat.org